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The prospectus also reveals certain fundamental details about the company: Monthly connected users now average 124 million, with a monthly paying user base of between 6.6 million and 8.1 million. During the first half of 2010, users made 95 billion minutes of voice and video calls using the service, with video calls responsible for around 40 percent of Skype-to-Skype minutes. Skype also hosted some 84 million SMS text messages during that period.

"We believe our highly scalable peer-to-peer software infrastructure gives us a significant cost advantage compared to conventional communications networks because it utilizes our users' existing Internet connections," the prospectus reads, "and does not require us to build or maintain a physical communications network." That combination of lower cost and scalable software architecture, the company insists, places it in a superior position vis-??Ã­-vis its competitors.

Skype indicated in its prospectus that, while the bulk of its current income is derived from the SkypeOut product that allows "low-priced calling to landlines and mobile devices," a future increase in revenues will come from a larger user base, new products such as group video calling, licensing and marketing, and Skype for Business products aimed at SMBs and larger firms.

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